2012-07-01
2012-07-31
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toolimit using yoor stove or oven... and take a cool shower... that'll make the peoole arounn you happier too. morning news. it's been a eek since powerful storms swept through region...leavvng behinn fallen debris, damage...and causing thousands to go without power. as oo riiht now, b-g-e say they've restored power to almost 700-thousand people.but manyyare will without power, morning.herres a look at the latest power outageenumbers at this hhur:according to b-g-e's website... total...anne aruudel county...baltimore ciiy... baltimore county... ccrroll county... howard county... 3&the heat wave and the power problems are a daageroussmix for people with hhalth least eight people have died - from heat-relaaed illnesses.... phree of them in baltimore city its especially pifficult foo those with respirattry problems. 3 and kinda wheezing like. i've got a wheezing tting. that lets me know its time to get on to my machine." machine." been without powwr for six as - use hee breathing device. crees bbgan workinggin hee catonnville neighborhoodd thursddy afternoon.. but, soo far... n

who kind of had been hit by like the aftershock of it and then kind of went running ast us.and two men were standing under a area fridayywhen a lightning strike knocked them to the grrond.the shock was enough to ssnd one of them into cardiac arrest, eventually killing him. he leavessbehind a big family. nine children are now missing their father because he was out here to have a nice afternoon.i'm andrew spencer reporting. the other man in the georgia incident regained conscioosness s emergency crews tended to him.his conditton is unknown. unknown.according to the "san antonno express-newss... the chances of getting hit by lightning in a year... is one in a million.the odds of lifetime... is one in city officials are hoping the recent wells fargo decision, ii juut the start of a housing recovery in it really take for those seeeinn homes, to give the city a chance? joel d. smith is live &pat aahouse ow, that could be the template for reversing a &plong trend of residents leaving ccarm city. gooo morning joel d. 3 3 3 gas prices have dropped nearly seven cents over the past slide

and help us keep you aheaddof the storm. because of the storrs... three baltimore city fire companies scheduled to close over the weekend... will remain open for a few more days. dayy.megan gilliland is here with more on why union officals say it's the perfect example of why hey need to stay open permanently. good mmoning guys,,his was the scene friday night... when at least five rowhomes collapsed in the strong winds.usually... department heads rely on neighborrng countiesstt help when needed. but with this storm... no backup was avaalable. 13:57:03 nats of fire truck to call after call...including ladder truuk 10... it's one o 3 fire companies that was supposed to shut down yesteeday.they were eliminated in the final budget last week... despite a plea from union officils that the city cannt fforddto close any compannes.but weekend stooms delayed the inevvtabbe....and city officials have decided o extend opperations until after the fourrh of jull. 12:13:15 "i'm oping somebody comes to their coomon sense before july 5th ann rralizess we need them evvryday. not just for a littll

should our wallets tell us what our favorite color is? every room deserves to look great. and every footstep should tell us we made the right decision. so when we can feel our way through the newest, softest, and most colorful options... ...across every possible price range... ...our budgets won't be picking the style. we will. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. make room for savings with $37 basic installation on martha stewart living and platinum plus carpet. a woman who may have made as mucc as a milliin dollars silicone is sentenced in with federal couut. prosectors argued theegeorgia woman even the paint additive from leaking out.crimeeand juutice reporter joy lepooa was inside thh courtroom when the sentence was handee down. down. ((pkg)) for nearly a deeade kimberly smedley traveled up and down the ass coast injecting exotic dangers with innustrial strength sillcone. her clients were led to believe the ilicone was medical grrde. a risky procedurr hat left one baltimore woman in the hospital.(old bite frrmmwttg pkg/no super) it's a quick fix in

this petition know it's their job to protect us" us"so far, the online &ppetition has been signed by 3 hundred people. you can check it out yourself by going to our web site fox baltimore dot com slash newslinks. we did talk with the public servicc commission about this petition to have them all fired.coming up next half hour... they're response.i'm pegan gilliland, fox45 morning news. last night's storms caused some scary moments for drivers. driverssthis is a look at route 50 near the bay bridge. you can see it's backed up... after being shut down to let the storms pass. for the second time ... this montt... a montgomery county "ride-on" bus catthes fire. this is the aftermath in silver spring. the driver saw flickering lights on the dashboard then smelled smoke.no passengers hurt.it's believed to be an eleetrical fire, buu it's still under investigation. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake announces new funding for thh "citi-watch" program. a grant from "the abell foundation" will create a database for security allowing police to quickly identify cameras close to crime scenes.citizen

. that his dad was inside a nearby bar, and that he really needed to use the resttoom aad he was scared.. he tells pplice his faaher's name. so ii they go -- looking for 46 ear old jose ramon hernandez. handful of patrons inside -- and as police ask for the man &pthey're looking for -- notice po one volunteers. until questioond.brown says: "the father admitted that yeah thha he had een there longer than he should have. and he admitted that ittwasn't right for him to have left the boy out there." but he also said the boy wasn't out thhre for very long ---it was justta couple of hours. however the woman ho called police to report the incident told them she first nottced the boy crying in theeccrrfive hours eaaliee around seven.brown &psays: "he had the objective symppomology of some alcohol impairments aad alcohol intoxications, and he was detained." policc searched the father beffre taking hhm in -- and fouud another problem in his pocket. brown says: "it was a powdery white substance and ii's going to take a lab to actually tell usswhat ii is. his

... but this morning there's already controversy over the u-s unnfor. uniforms. as marianne refferyyshows uu... it's not the colorssor style that's has some up in arms... it's where the clothes were ade. made. with the 2012 olympic games just weeks away... excitement is building as folks around the world gear uu for the upcoming festivities. but its not just the athletic events some are paying close attention to... uniforms set to be worn by american competitors is sparring outrage.reid says: "i am so upset that i think the olympic committee should be ashamed of themselves" he uniforms designed by alph lauren includeeblazers, trouserssand a french-style beree in red, white and blue. but it's not the many aagered... it'ss that the uniforms were made in chiia. a number of lawmakers are pointing fingers at the olympic committee's wardrobes overseas while the american textile industryy struggles and many workers desperate for jobs. would know better"pelosi says: "they should be weaaing uniforms that are made in america." in the wake off the controversy,,the us- &poly

to be going unused. we areejust hours away from inner harbor.the new strategy police are using this year to and i'm a burger guy. cheeseburger's fine with me.// and.. the cost of your down this year.but the two items in yyor grocery cart you'll pay more for. 3 3 3 today is weenesday, jjly 4th. happy fourth of july! 3 about a 100-thousand people are still without power, this morning.b-g-e crews are still workiig to restoreeit after friday's powerful storms. stormm.here's a look at the latest numbers.according to b-g-e's website... total... anne arundel county... bbltimore city... bbltimmre county... carroll county... slowly bbt surely... power is being restored across the state aftee last week's storms. but theee's still a lot of repair work to be done. &pdone.and while some residents herr in the city are getting a gilliiand is here with more on the help einggoffered that'ss not being used. good morning guys,take a look at this picture here.in a city where thousands of ccstomers are without power... there is not one personninside the emergency shelter at the baltimore junior academy... o

seeking a woman.but the surprising website... he's using to find her... and the criteria you have to meet to join. 3 3 today is thursday, july 26. 3 3 3 3 3 the search is on right now for an armed and dangerous man who kidnapped cal ripken's mother. we've been following this story since the missing person's report came out early yesterday morning. morning.megan gilliland is here with a description of the suspect to look out for. good morning patrice,at this hour... local police... and the fbi... are hunting down the kidnapper. kidnapper. he's believed to be a white man in his late 30's to early 40's with glasses... he was last seen wearing a light colored shirt and camouflage pants. pants.police belive he bound and abducted violet ripken at gun point in her own car.she was missing for 12 hours before anyone realized she was in trouble.a stranger who spotted ripken and her kidnapper at this royal farms spoke up... after thinking it was suspicious.someone got a license plate number and called police.amid an intesive search... ripken was quietly dropped off by her kidnapper on the

of texting, overuse of computers, whatever they use, a blackberry or an iphone. iphone.doctors say the bottom line is this... if you are doing a lot of texting... you might want to give your thumbs a break. it's got the right name for a weed starting to get out of control in maryland. the "mile a minute" weed is the newest enemy of natural vegetation and wetlands. wetlands. joel d. smith went a half mile into the woods in jessup and he's here now to show us the weed that could make its way into your yard. good morning joel d. 3 3 3 a georgia man spends the weekend in critical condition after letting his friends... set his face on fire.and it's all caught on tape! tape!you can see 36-year-old william bonner at an augusta bar last thursday with friends. look close and you can see people flicking lighters next to his head. suddenly, you can see his head become engulfed see his head suddenly, you can his head. lighters next to people flicking lighters next to his head. lighters next to people flicking you can see look close and you can see people flicking lighters next to his head. suddenl

d. smith is live at one of the cooling centers with some dangerous mistakes many of us are still making on these hot days. &ppgooo morning joel d. 3 here we are in mmunt vernon, this cooling center like ll the rest in the city open at 9:00am but frankll, it could open right ow and help some people ut. 23 people have dded in the statt from heat related causes. drink plenty of water or wipe skin with ool watee as ne- neededreduce outside activvties wear light-weight and light-colored clothingstay inside during he hottest time of day (between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.) people still need to work, even in hot ppaces like dry cleaners... even with the temperature hits triplee digits. 11 cooling cenners in the city are open todaa from 9am until 7 tonight. "114 degrees...underneathhsome " air!"other "cooling" places in baltimore county officials 3 suggest... community cennerss churches malls neighbor's home with air conditioning restaurants & other hints... 3 3 a megabus meltdown.. driver bringing passengers right here to baltimore... gets heated ann refuses to go any

, july 25. 3 3 3 3 3 did taxpayers pay for the guns and bullets used in the colorado movie massacre? massacre? suspected gunman james holmes bought a small arsenal in the months leading up to the shooting.but there's no record of him working since he dropped out of a prestigious neuroscience program at the university of colorado at denver... in june. june.holmes was only one of six pre-doctoral students to recieve a 22-thousand dollar a year grant... his only source of income. money for the grants.. comes from the national institutes of health. some people now suggest the n-i-h was the unwitting underwriter of holmes' weapons , but we do not know if that is how holmes' spent the money. the value of the guns, ammunition and bomb-making supplies is estimated between six to ten-thousand dollars. while the colorado shooting has some calling for tighter gun control laws... here in maryland it'll soon be áeasierá for people to get a permit to carry a concealed han. handgun.megan gilliland is here with more on the federal the way business is done. good morning guys,right now, you

late or that ... if you're infeeted... you won't be able to use that website... website...or any website for that atter.this malicious malware is called "d-n-s discovered in 2007.but when the f-b-i busted the hackers last year... aaentssrealized that if they turned off the malicious seevers... victims woulddlose interret servicc..o they set up temporary servers.... but ttat safey net expired at miinight.leaving thousands of internet users at risk.even if you have internet phissmorning... there's a few protect yourself. yourself..ccording o cyber secuuity experts:keep your anti virus software updated. pake suue you're using a fireeall when browsing the inttrnet.aad on't click on a if you have any doubt it mightt inteenet providers say they are bracing for calls to their hhll lines.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. new researcc finds ágenderá could plly a role ii how well a person heals from concussions. ssudy... published in the - "american journal of spoots medicine"... suggests child and ffmale attletes may take longer to recover from concussions than men. don't k

distributioo charge varies &pdepending onn ow much energy you use. (gould) "to find the balance between allowing the utility" "to promote energy efficiency." "at the same time, not putting it in a posstion where it's using the revenue that it would be bringing in to system..but customersswould still have to pay a distributton fee for the first 24 hours of a power outtge. so... now for the bad news... this is foo everyonee.. your utility bill ii... expected to go up. b.g.e. plans to seek a &prate ike.ii would be the second increase in 20-years. when you could be paying ore and how much morr.i'm megan pillilandd fox45 morning news. a major shake-up at the anne arundel county police department.... as the police chief retires during a criminnl investigation into possible miiconnuct. jamms teare has een uuder suspected role in the case is - against county executive john leopold. leopold is charged with misusing his police protection squaa,,including making them drive him to sexual ennounters innparking lots with a countt mployee. chief teareewas neeer indicted... but was believed to ha

wirelessly.the one thing that hackers use to steal your data... and how to protect yourself. 3 3 3 today is monday, july 30. 3 3 map belairwikens395map we have new details this morning about the anne arundel county man... who police say was planning a mass shooting like the one in colorado.right now... the suspect is undergoing psychiatric observat. observation.megan gilliland is live in catonsville where he grew up... with reaction from neighbors... on why they're stunned by the accusations. accusations.good morning guys, this is the old neighborhood whre neil prescott grew up. neighbors here say he was a quiet but normal teenager. teenager.2641 i don't know what made him do this? uh, out of character 46 28-year-old prescott was taken into custody on friday. investigators say he was on the brink of being fired... when he threatened to kill his boss and former co-workers at pitney bowes in prince george's county.they say he was planning to do a mass shooting... similar to the one in in colorado. colonel 00:59 during a field interview with their officers... the individual was wear

of violence that marks us as a community, it is the lives and acts of these heroes and the innumerable acts of kindness, love and care for our neighbors that defines who we are (applause) (applause)the suspect... james holmes... is expected to appear in court this morning. he has been assigned a public defender and authorities say he is no longer cooperating with them in their investigation. besides all the boobie traps they found in his apartment... there was also something else. we'll tell you what they found and why it's so troubling coming up next half hour.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. police are still searching for answers in the mysterious death of a woman in north balti. baltimore.the victim's decomposed body was discovered on 29th street on saturday, at the wyman house. residents say they told management about a foul smell coming from one of the apartments, as early s july 16th.the woman, who neighbors call "christie", and say is in her 30's ... was found in another man's apartment. maxine: 18.30 "i couldn't sleep lastnight, cause that was on my mind. mmm hmm."al mcc

years later. ((bump out)) ((break 2)) 3 70-years ago, the u-s marines looked a lot different.... back then, it was for whites- only..... and it to order the marrnes to integrate. many of this country's ffrst blacc marines are still around..... &p jeff abell taaes u inside their battle.. as they fought one enemy abroad... and another oneehere at home. home. (23:12) all these mmn ii here were members of my outfit..." when he graduated from high school, charles wells had plannnd to beeome a rinter...... but aaletter from the draft board.....turred him into a my choices weren't too reat ll either obey them or go to prison and i had noodesire to go to prison." it was 1944 and 18-year old chhrles.....was bout to become one of the first blacks admitted into the marine corps. presideet rooseveet haddrecently ordered the marines too integrate.....despite strong objections from the last whites-only branch of the military. (10::0)) "one general had he audacity to say that he'd rather have 500-white marines than 5- tho

people died from he heat. acording to the national &padminiitratiin... the u-s jjs set a new recorddnoaa says the lower 48 statts just broke the record for the warmest 11 month period since record keepiig began back in 18--5. last eekss eat wave helped set the new record. ten days after stormm tore throughhour arre.... clean up is far from over... private tree services have &pbeen orking overttmee.. &pbeen aking hundreds of calls about storm debris.everytting of bbanches.comppnies say they ry o prioritizeeeach job based on the amount of damage and dannee.some &pcontractors have a warning for hhmeowners... make sure you ask for credentials. 3<"tte only thing i can tell you is whoever's doinggthe work - license, innured and &ma workman;s compensaaion. you're gonna gettflyyby nighters in here who are uncovered and somebody getss pomeowner.">they're also encouraging customers to ccll their insurance companies to find out exaccly what's covered. some ddamatic momentts.. captured on live t-v. v.ttke a look at what phppens... during a debate between politicians in jordaa. &pjordan."nats

your next trip to the grocery.. could be on us.we're giving away another 250 dollar iann gift card... tomorrow on fox45 3 a megabus meltdown.what happened to passengers headed to baltimore that sent one to the hosptial and left the others stranded in jersey. bus passengers stopping and staring at the sidewalk.. before boarding.what they were looking at.. that makes this video shocking. and... triplets .. all born in different yeaas.how it's possible. 3 3 today is wednesday, july 18. 3 3 3 3 3 first on fox...nearlyy70 passengers on a "megabus" headed to baltimore... are stranded in new jersey... when the driver efuses to bring them any further. further.megan gilliland is here with an inside look of the megabus meltdown... and the injuries that happened on good morning guys,as the temperatures rose... so did tempers.and one passenger caaght the wholeething on camera...take a look... look...it all started when someone asked the driver if the air conditioninggwas working.at that point... we're told the driver pulled ovee and slammed on the brakes... forcing a jolt so hard that hospita

. murray is currently serving a 4-year prison sentence. a chicago clothing store owner is using social media to fight back... after a flash mob walked in... and started stealing items. items.the owner posted this video on youtube... hoping to catch the criminals who allegedly stole 3-thousand dollars worth of designer jeans. you can see the group walking in the store in wicker park.... in a calm, coordinated fashion.the teens then search through the jeans and began stuffing them into their book bags. "they kind of knew what they wanted to take and they went for it so we weren't prepared at all obviously. they very quickly overwhelmed us" us"the owner says since encountered several shoplifting incidents. a georgia woman who survived cancer twice... is now battling something doctors belief she got from her dog. and it's already cost her ...her hands and feet. feet.since the age of 18...hannah rinehart has been battling and beating cancer. now at age 32 ... she's back in the hospital again...fighting a rare type of bacteria found in ádog salivaá.the bacteria caused rinehart to develop c

casino at national harbor would mean for maryland. but it won't be built unless lawmakers give us the right to vote on it this november. call 1-800-492-7122 and tell your delegate and state senator to vote "yes" on national harbor... one of the biggest new job projects in the country. drought. how its affecting maryland crops. how its affecting drought.damage from the 3 power outages from last night's storms are causing some school closings this morning.day classes at c-c-b-c are canceled today. 3 3 3 3 3 we are following breaking news just into our newsroom... at least 10 people are dead... 39 injured... after a gunman goes on a rampage inside a colorado movie theater. theater.here's what we know right now... it happened during a midnight screening of the "dark knight rises" in aurora, colorado.. right outside denver. denver. some reports say someone walked into the movie after it started and started shooting. witnesses say people stayed inside the theater after the shots were fired because it happened during a shooting scene in the movie and they thought it was special effects.

experts:keep your anti virus software updattd. make sure you're using firrwall when browsing the internet.and don't click on a link or accept an attachment nottbe what it seems to be.ght - there's no word yet on exactly unplugged this morning.some say it cculd be... much to do y-two-k.in the end there were very few problems there... and that's what we're hoping for 3 3police need your help searching for the man who killed 19-year- old terrence anderson in may. may..olice are looking for the poliie say he was buying snacks bbforeehe shoo annerson in the headdit happened on victim's family says the teen wassworkiig two jobb, to pay "iiknoo if he was here right now, we'd be going through thee goals we said we would do, wish he was here, wishhhe wws h" here" metro crimmstoppers is offering a two thousand dollar reward. &pinvvstigatoos continue to loo into the cause of a fire that claimed tte life of an anne arundel ounty woman. of our viewers... lorien hiteshew..he fire department says flaaes broke out around millersville home on newport bay" community.police found have not yet confirmedd

millioo-dollar bond a week and aahall ago.o'mara ays: "he's bbtter, still in hiding and 3 us, it's bben difficultt or -&pthe zimmermma family as they continue go from hotel too - potel, living n fear because of death thheats.o'mara says: "it's beyond damaging, it''s devastating. tteyyre vry worried. (do you haae extra trying to but we don't havv defense fund was devassated by p100,000t pay for a bond of one million dollars." &pincreasee toddy,,after stattments by witness umber nineewere released. he thinks some people are mad -3 because tte state is aking the focus offfthe rral case. oomara says: "my focus is thh stand your ground hearing, a trial f we need to get to one showing george aated in self- defense." eanwhileehe cootinues to encourage peoppe to donate o zzmmermaans defense ffnd.o'mara says: "if 3 that still waat to support georgg now is the time." and attorney mark & o'maraahopes to find out if 3&ptte case somettme next eek. valerie boey. fx news. -3 3 a warning for parents in anne &parundel county after

outsourceddjobs outside thh u-s... and as ed ayne explains....whether the wealthhest mericans should &pkeep getting tax breaks. breaks. in iowa, president obama renewed his pitch to extend the bush-era tax cuts for a year... or families earniin less than 250-thousand dollars. sure the taxes on the 98 percent of americans don't o up and then we should let thee tax cuts expire for folks likk of america.mitt romney countered in colorrdoothe very busiiess and job creators at al the very time we need mooe jobs is the sort of thing only an extreme liberal could come &pup with.obamaaalso ccnninued to accuse romney of romney has xperience owning companies that were called pioneers in the business of outsourring.in the same city, the chairman of the republicann national committee unveilld a websiteeaccusing obama of &pootsourcing jobs by giving stimulus money o forrign renewable energy companiee. rooney reiterated the themm.if there's an outsourcer in chief, it's the president of phe united states, not the guy who's runniig tt eplace im. i'm ed payne reporting. fox45 is holding a town hal

of maryland. maryland..s auurey barnes tells us... people in montgomery county are still &pddaling with the mess left behind after the storm. ptorm. don gray is getting his dog zooee used to the neighborhood bethesda.. because they're going to be bethesdaa..because residence inn in aroond the residence inn in bethesda.. there a while... neighborhood..and he's made a reservvtion through next punday.gray saas: "im a coming the lines of cars hotels stretched down the - block. it was standiig rrom only at the reserration was ucky enough to snap up one of he laat aaailable rooms for his ffmily.. ttey couldn't spend even a single ighh inntheir 11th floor apartmmnt with no electricity.hoagland saas: "we're pretty bad up...getting two days after the storm and katrina is still cleaninggup after hurricane strength winds toppled bunch offtrees in her rockville yard-- ignitinggthe power lines right outside her winddw. papavasiliou says: " the tree that wws laying... whole yard caught on fire.. after about 200frantic calls to 911--she finally got through..

syringes... then using them on patients in at least 8 states. at least 30 former patients in new hampshire contracted the &pvirus.kwiatkowski also worked at four maryland hospitals from 2008 to 2010... including baltimore veteran affairs medical center... johns hopkins... maryland general and southern maryland hospital. 00:57 we want to err on the side of caution to go ahead and test all of the people who may have been exposed here. 03 kwiatkowski is charged with obtaining drugs and tampering with a consumer product.he denies the allegations. a familiar face returns to the anne arundel county police forc. force.larry tolliver will take over as the new police chief next tuesday.tolliver takes command more than a dozen years after he last supervised anne arundel county police.he fills the position vacated by james teare ... who retired amid a criminal investigation. 3 3 new details are being revealed... in the jerry sandusky sex abuse case.two attorneys in state college, pennsylvania say they've identified one of sandusky's victims... known as victim number two. and as elizabeth corridan ex

in college football. the 60-million dollar fine against penn state will be used to fund child sexual abuse programs across the count. country.a move that is being applauded in baltimore.megan gilliland is here with more on who the money may help here. good morning guys,more then one-thousand victims pass through the baltimore... child abuse center... each and every month.the non profit agency needs all the help it can get... and they just might get it. while the n-c-a-a has earmarked penn state's fine to be spent on programs for victims... it's not clear exactly how that money will be divided up.but at the baltimore center... they believe that money will have a big impact nationwide. (adam rosenberg-balt child abuse center)"most of us are non profits.. it would e a game changer for anyone of these child advocacy centers that our govt institutions dont provide us with enough funds to be sustainable." sustainable."there's no questions that sexual child abuse is a crisis.statistics show one in four girls... and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18. advocates say mor

two yyars old.daniel goteraa tells us about the unique circummtances that lead him to being diagnosed with a rare cancer...the ddamatic measures used to saae him...and the boo's determination... to live a normal life life this is a story about perssverance, personified by a little boy from pearlandd "ii's jjst the will of a kid." rrley rhoden isn't going to 3 let anyyhing get in his way of a normal life."he's beat the odds. he's gone beyond what i thought he could do."doubts which crept in not long after he was born."i took him to the pediatrician several times, 3 and guys, they were telling me, 'it'' just an angioma. it's a irth mark" when riley was two years old, his mom rachel noticed what looked like a small mosquito bite on his left arm. "i mean, my hair would raise every tiie i wouud looo at it"her young nightt riley had crawled into bed with me, and he had wokenn up in the middleeof the night. i mean, hisspajamas were soaked and i was oaaed in blood."several tests at m-d anderson in galvesson revealed riley had a very rare malignant tumor. "a cancer is, so we called i

dolllr speet matters... can create a new phone system cheaper - using in house employeee, along wiih subcontrrctors and eeuipment. now... as the ciiy hits the reset button - so to speak - many wonder if the new technology chief - appointed tt the job just last week - compromise with the a comptroller... and i-b-m.the - resigned back in february amid scandal with his previous employer,,the state of new york.new york found singleton engaged in questionable bidding practices and signedd an unnecessarr deal thaatcost &pthe tate abouttone and a hal million dollars.while singleton coordinaaed some of the riginal deals between baltimore and digicon, he never worked for or had any other relationship with the companyybut these invoices áfrom digiconá show the current technology office chief of sttff --damian sharr --áwasá aid for consultiig work in the past. though digicon's attorneys say he was actually employed by a subcontractor to digicon, not digicon itself. either way, he failed to dissloseethat role on his ethics form, which he ffled with the city last year... and amended onl

sent to an overwhelming number of false calls.in today's cover story.. jeff baand tells us... itts a problem with 9-1-1 calls ttat has gone largely unnoticed. unnoticed. 25"26"baltimore city fire department is one of the busieet departments in the couutry"at the old town firee pouse on gay streetinside one of the bussest fire comppnies in the city.truck 6 prepares to saddle up...and move oot. repsonding to a calllffo help....as a hot july day turns into an oven.but even as thh city struggles to keep up with demand for emerrency servicesa&.there's a lingering problem that puts these trucks...and the people falss calls26:23"one of the types of calls we respond to, the ddsposstion turns ouu to that aren't urgent at all. pleas for eep, thattare simply not serious. 26:27"when a firefighter or paramedic responds to the scene, they incident"and according tt these figurrs obtained by fox that continues to plague the citylasy yeara&. the fire deparment responned to 1000 calls for iresa&that didn't exiit.and even more trrubling for emergency medical services that werr also classified s fa

for a few more days. days.megan gilliland is here officals aae using this extra time to argue why hey should stay open permanently. good morning guys,usually... department heads rely on when needed. but with this - storm... no ackup was availabl. available.12::3:04 "baltimore ccunty couudn't end unit in. thing. almost every truck was in use... responding to truck 10 in the ity... it's one of 3 fire companies that was supposed to shut down yesterday.they were eliiinnted in he final budget last week. put weekend storms delayed the inevitable... and city pfficials havv decided to extend opperations until after &pclock is ticking agaii. 13:50:00 "fireepeople, we need 'em. these guys work hard. you ddn'' need tt close them down."12:09:48 "we are here as insurance and we are ne" needed."while the mayor says cuus are needed... nion officials say they're still talking wwth citt hall trying theirrminds. commng uppnext half hour...the after five rowhomes collapped... and how unionn officials are using events like it....to plea with the mayor.i'm megan gillillnd, fox455eaaly ediiioo. &p

theellw was enacted, the american eople have consistently told us one thinn::they do not like obamacare.democrats sppke agginst repeal.you talk about pepeal and repllcee aal we've heard is repeal. there's no &pplan tooreplace..nnne.the rrpublicans areemore &ppather than protecting rests patients rightss tte truth s only insurance ccmpanies gain rick perry ssys e ill not carry ouu key parts of the affordable care act.he sayy hee won't implement a state and won't expand medicaid he says he won't act.affordable care key parts of the will not 3 carry out icc perry says e texas governor repeal. companies gain from is only insurance patients rights. the truth is only insurrnce &pcompanies gain from rrpeal. texas ggvernor riik perry ays &phe will not carry ouu key parts of the affordable care act.he says he won't expand medicaid and won't imppement a state insurance exchange.on fox news, he said he has a beetee idee.tooblock grant those ddllars back to the ptates. that is the single most effective way to allow implemented in he statee. &pbetter impllmented in allow health care to bb

-profits are holding out hope... hope...(adam rosenberg-balt child abuse center)"and we can use that to help universities.. summer camps and private schools to train them to let them know what they should be on the lookout for and how to report abuse.."3 abuse.."here at the baltimore child abuse center... they believe that money will have a big impact.more then one- thousand victims pass through their doors every month.as non profit agency... they're hoping they'll be eligable for just some of that funding. (adam rosenberg-balt child abuse center)"it would enable us to be ble to provide 24 hour coverage.. for every child who reports abuse and enable us to make sure that any child or their adult parent dealing with this issue can go get the help needed." needed." help... they're hoping could curb these statistics... that show one in four girls... and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18. in 90-percent of the cases... the offender is someone the child knows and trusts. i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. a man in dead, after being shot in the head in west baltim.

trying time for our family, but we're garteful and relieved that mom is back with us safe and healthy. we want to thank everyone for their tremondous support..." the kidnapping of ripken's mother sent shockwaves through the area. area. especially in aberdeen where cal ripken's aberdeen iron-birds were playing a home game last night. the people we talked to at the game expressed shock and sympathy for violet and the ripken family. ...once in awhile awhile the ripkens have lived in aberdeen for more than 50 years. be the first to know about breaking news by signing up for fox45's "news on the go." text w-b-f-f to 4-5-2-0-3... to sign up for text alerts ... or go to fox baltimore dot com and click on "mobile" on the upper right hand corner of the . screen.you can also download the fox45 app on your smartphone.go to your app store and enter w-b-f-f to download it. anne arundel county schools are dealing with a financial loss today... after copper wiring is stolen from several of its schools. schools.anne arundel county schools say five of its schools had 20 thousand dollars worth of c

."the alleged shooter... james holmes... is expected to be in court today.our sources tell us that inside his apartment... besides the boobie traps they also found a batman poster and a mask associated with the movies. president barack obama is promising that justice will be served.hear what he had to say to the victims and their families coming up next half hour.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. major movie studios are waiting until today to report weekend box office numbers... in respect for the victims of friday's movie theater massacre. but "the new york times" is estimating the new batman movie "the dark knight rises" made about 162-million dollars over the weekend. movie studios expected the film to bring in 190-million. according to the times... there is speculation moviegoers either did not want to watch a violent comic book story... or did not feel safe at the movies. it's been a year, and police still don't have any suspects in the shooting death of a 20-year-old man in northeast baltimore.william daughtry was last seen skateboarding to a friend's house, when someone in a car

soon be easier e lotion.british researchers have unnovered a new way to using pills.theeidea ccme from underwattr coral....which has itssown natural barrier o u-v radiation.also in the works... is an áimplantá called to increase melanin in your skin... which blocks u-v rays. the implant is at least wo years away from getting on the market.the pills are still in developmmnt... and are at least 55years aaay from being &pavailable o the public. if youuplaa on using the internet this coming monday... you might run into some problems..housands of americans are at risk of getting kicked offline... if they have a certain type of malware on their compuuers. if thhy don't remove it... they will losee nternet access when the f-b-i shuts down the facebook from a computer es - infected with "d-n-s--hanger display an alert... with a instructs users on how to also has a link that allows people tt check if they have it's friday and that eans - it's youu turn to sound off on our facebook page about anything you want. want.let s know wwat's on could air in our "facebook se - feedback" segment

're not used to seeing.on wednesday... students dressed as zombies... crashed a meeting of the university of california's governing board. at one point... the demonstrators even danced to michael jackson's ""hriller." the students were protesting against proposed tuition hikes. they ended up leaving the meeting peacefully on their own. going up 110 flights of stairs never felt so good. the stair-climb to remember &pthe firefighters lost on 9-11 is today at the downtown hilton. hilton. joel d. smith is there now with some of the personal ways those heroes are being remembered every step of the way.good morning joel d. 3 3 3 a driver caught on camera... speeding the wrong way down a highway... forcing cars off the rood. road.oh, my gosh. there it went. there it went. where this shocking sccne happened... and why it's more common than you think. think. more than 300 kids brave the heat for the ripken experieece baseball camp.temperatures on the field in aberdeen reached well ver 110 degrees tuesday. tuesday.rookie campers had mandatory water breaks between drills.they say the heat is dra

confirmed that 100%. he looked defeated, he knows that he's not the one with power anymore, that it's us." in his first court appearance last week holmes displayed a bizarre range of bewildered expressions. this time he appeared more lucid and aware of what was going on around him. his red hair matted down, at times he stared blankly at the judge's bench in front of him and then his eyes would open wide as if trying to process the court exchanges. (nats) there were dozens of victims and family members in court today to see and judge holmes' demeanor for themselves. "i got a sense that he was very aware of what was going on. i do not believe he is insane but of course i'm not a psychiatrist. he responded very appropriately." survivors and their families filled half the courtroom as well as an overflow courtroom where they could watch the hearing. (nats) among them rita paulina who was brought to the court by her family in a wheelchair her left arm and leg still bandaged from the gunshot wounds.. don lader and amber harris came together. total strangers the night of the shooting, don found

to rent.the real estate website "trulia" finds u-s rents rose an average of 5-point-4 percent over the areas... like san francisco... phe increase was much hhgher. renters therr were payinn nearly á15-percentá more than analysts say the large number of former homeowners displaced apaatments... and that's sent d rent prices soaring. 3 america's birthday bash at the inner harror starts at 4pm tonight with live entertainment and concluses with the huge fireworks display over he water. water. joel d. smith has a run down f the event, watch the u.s. turn 236!!! good morning joel d. fireworks at 9:30 3 3 p 3 spanking yoor children may have lasting effects on their health.a new canadian study found a link between people who were spanked or slapped ass children and mental illness. harsh physical punishment which does not amount to abuse..was assooiated with anxieey disorders.... alcohol and drug abuse .. severe personality disorders..even depressionnthe question of whether to spank.... still has parents divided. 3 davis says: "when they ess up their nose in the corner just ddn

have been on the scene all morning long. megan gilliland joins us live there now with a look at the damage left 3 a baltimore county man faces charges accused of sexually assaulting a teenager and giving him h-i-v. h-i-v.police say back in february... steven podles and a 13 year old boy began talking through an app called ágrinder.áthe two agreed to meet up... and police say 36 year old podles... drove to essex and engaged in sexual activity with the boy... and according to the indictment... he infected the boy with hiv: "yea that's disguisting its like taking someone's life...i'm sure the older man knew" 3 "can not...as consensual, it is a crime" crime" police are not sure if there are any other victims... but they are contacting other people on grinder he may have contacted. friends and family gather to remember two maryland students.. and best friends... killed in a car crash... in west virginia... over the weekend.hundreds showed up at the students former high school in middle river. close to 200 people... most of them students... gathered at eastern tech high to reme

.natsscandddates please raise your right hand. and a group of active-duty u-s service membeer tooo the oath of allegiaace to become u-s citizens. it was one of country.parade nats and don't forget the parades!!here's te big one in he nation's capital.nats siren in paradein indiana, the governor led the parade in pekin (peek-in) -- which was ravvged by tornadoes handled it, the way they're coming back from it.it was the independence day pprade.the longest-running in america.in atlanta, more than 60-thousand peoppe pounded the pavement n the annuaa peachtree road race. and it's not the fourth of july without nathan's hot dog eating contest in coney island. the men and women had separate competitions.and the winners are --ladies and gentlemen, joey chestnuuuuuuuuuuut!!!! 68 hot dogs and buns. a world record, sonya "the black widow thomas" ate 45!i'm melisa raney reporting. and just to make ssre you don't forget... the holiday marks the day the original 13 from great britain in 17-76. fireworks were the thing lighting up some neighborhoods ... still without power. are still in the dark.tomers park.it di

...this video was sent to us by a driver.the sudden rush of water overwhelmed storm drains around baltimore.the driver shot this in his car on east baltimore street... of water gushing out of this manhole. here's another one near calvert and pratt streets at the inner harbor.water bubbling out of that manhole... in the middle lane... and drivers doing their best to avoid it. 3 anne arundel county policc need your help fighting back 3 back a thief who broke into the severna park golf center is caught on camera and has an audience on... youtube. a "nanny-cam" captured the thief ransackkng the office recently. making off ...with 300--dollars and a laptop computer. the owner was so disgusted by the break-in he so disgusted by the owner was computer. the owner was so disgusted by the break-in he on youtube. (10:36) "the in disarray, he'd rummaged through drawer and the cash rummaged through our really an invasion. i really felt personally like my space had been invaded." invvded." 3 call police with any information you may have on this crime. police catch the man

. and i'm not really covered up at all. and there's a car literally driving towards us, and i'm like, "oh my god!" once in the ambulance... they continued to the hospital. but then minutes later... they had to pull over... and out came declan. mom and dad later arrived at the e-r with all the heavy-lifting already done. she is only 12-years-old... but she has already done more for others than many have done in a lifetime. and thanks to a recently awarded scholarship.... she's now able to help others even more. ariana wall is from catonsville. and she is this years ákohl's cares scholarship recipientá.it's a program honoring youth volunteers. with the help of her sister... ariana founded a program to raise money for children born with cleft palates. she also sold bracelets and made quilts for premature babies. ariana says helping others is what she loves to do. "we were like helping others because they don't have someone to care for them as much as we do." ariana's parents says it was difficult for them to decide which daughter they were going to nominate for the award... since both do

of the camera fire fighters old us someone complained to the city about a large american flag being floww from the back of a ladder truck. when it they were told tooggt rid of - smaller flags flying from "my goal today is they say &p'...yes the flags are oiig back on the trucks, yes we have a solution.'" the demonstrators are memberssof several llcal miliiary support groups. thee say they took to the streetssafter their complaints were ignoree. the city of seminole apparently oess't object to every american flag. check this out old glory flying above city hall even on a sunday. these demonstrators saa they'ree trying to protect a tradition that sttrted after hundreds of fire fighters were killed trying to save people from the worll ttade center on 9-11. fender ssys: "to be able to fly the flag and support our country it should be a right " straight ahead... gas prices.. are 20 cents lower ttan thii time last year. but why these kind of prices.. won't last longg long.and next.. j-p morgan loses billions of dollars.why the huge loss isn't all bad news. let's take a

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